Document 1/53/220 (RRS, v, no. 194)
- Description
- Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Malcolm (II), earl of Lennox, for his many good deeds and services, the integral earldom of Lennox and the sheriffdom of Dumbarton with its castle, which castle King Alexander [II] his predecessor had from Máel Domnaig (Maldoven) earl of Lennox predecessor of Earl Malcolm; holding in feu and heritage, with tenants and tenandries, advowson of churches, multures, courts, escheats, merchets, bludewites, forfeitures, in fowling, hunting, eyries of birds, fishings, in bondi, bondages, neyfs and their offspring, with pit and gallows, sake and soke, toll and team, infangenthef and outfangenthef, and with free forest of the said earldom given and granted by King Alexander [III] his predecessor to Earl Malcolm (I) predecessor of the said Malcolm (II) earl of Lennox, giving stated bounds of the earldom, as freely as any earldom in the kingdom of Scotland, for the service of ten full vills in the king's armies and aids. If the sheriffdom is retained against the earl's will, the king will pay the earl 500 marks annually from the customs.
- Firm date
- 14 July 1321
- Dating Notes
- 14 July, regnal year 16
- Place date (modern)
- Forfar
- Place date (document)
- Forfare
- Related Place
- Forfar
- Source for Data Entry
- RRS, v, no. 194
- Trad. ID
- RRS, v, no. 194
- Calendar number
- 1/53/220
- Charter type
- Charter
- Language
- Latin
- Document type notes
- This document refers to previous royal charters, namely that of 28 July 1238, whereby King Alexander II gave the earldom of Lennox with the exception of Dumbarton Castle and the land of Murroch to Earl Máel Domnaig [_RRS_, iii, no. 267; 1/7/274], and that of 1 July 1272, whereby Alexander III gave the earldom of Lennox in free forest to Earl Malcolm (I) [_RRS_, iv, no. 81; 1/8/81].
- Notes
- 1474 notarial instrument. Fraser, Lennox, ii, no. 18.